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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Experiences
Everybody
True
Reality
Way

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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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